COP21: Nicaragua refuses to make climate pledge at Paris talks

Financial Times ^ | 12/14/2015 | Pilita Clark in Paris

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It has been a while since the 6m people of Nicaragua did much to attract global attention.

But the Central American state burst on to the world stage at this week's climate change conference in Paris when it became the first nation to declare it had no intention of publishing a national plan to combat global warming.

That would be "a path to failure" said Paul Oquist, Managua's lead negotiator, explaining his country did not want to be a part of a process dooming the world to "the hell" of dangerous global warming.

More than 180 of the 195 countries involved in the Paris talks have volunteered a plan to combat climate change since March as part of an effort to forge a new global accord to stop global temperatures rising more than 2C from pre-industrial times.

Their number includes the strife-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, which was struggling this year with Ebola, and most of the world's poorest countries, from Malawi and Burundi to Haiti and Niger.

But Mr Oquist, who first revealed his country’s stance to the Climate Home online news site, told reporters the voluntary nature of the pledges meant global temperatures were bound to rise.

"We do not want to be accomplices to the death, damages and destruction that a 3C or 4C world will represent," he said.

Managua's snub to the Paris conference, known as COP21, is unlikely to interrupt the meeting's central aim of striking the first new UN climate agreement in 18 years. Nicaragua accounts for just 0.03 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Who gives a rat’s ass? We will ignore that junk science =— paid for by government grants to “science” Whores!! The whole thing is a lie . Tell me true — Define the criteria by which one measures “climate Change” as indicating “Man Made” ???? HUMMMMMMM??

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Apparently Obama did not pay them enough.

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There is still room for you in the Obama clown car in Paris. Yeah just keep dumping your raw sewage into the ocean knowing that a fairy tale CO2 problem is much worse.

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And everyone said, Gasp!

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Why is it called COP21? Does it have anything to do with Agenda 21?

This is nothing but a wealth redistribution plan. Make the world equal with one world government. A part of old man Bush’s NEW WORLD ORDER.

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“We will ignore that junk science =___ paid for by government grants to “science” Whores!! The whole thing is a lie.
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It is definitely true that “man-made global warming” is a huge HOAX. So you are correct on that point. But you’re off on other threads defending a candidate who just threw in his lot with the Ethanol hoaxsters who feed off of government subsidies and MANDATES. And you demonize the candidate who has the courage to say the truth IN IOWA that Ethanol should be neither subsidized or mandated. It’s certainly a mystery.